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jaxjon
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now playing on top

Post by jaxjon »

I have found that when I minimize Mediamonkey to the now playing window, the window stays on top of all others. This is very annoying. I have tried trasparency to see through it but it still is physically there so any click on that part of the screen is on the now playing window.When I minimize the now playing window, it goes down to the taskbar and brings back up the full MM screen. But it cannot be restored except to minimize the full MM window again. If you click the taskbar button again everything goes to tray. The only way I know of to keep the now playing window up and work on top of it is to click view/now playing or click pl in the player then begin new task window over the full mm window and now playing window together. What I would like to do is to be able to keep the now playing window up only but behind other windows, then bring it to the front by giving it focus by clicking on the taskbar button or allowing minimize of now playing and restore by one click of taskbar button. I did not notice a setting to allow this. Is it possible? Thanks as always.

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rusty
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Post by rusty »

Looks like a design bug.

Since the 'minimize' button is being used as a toggle, if the user closes the 'Now Playing' window, then clicking the MediaMonkey icon should re-open it (as you pointed out).

Hopefully it's not too difficult to resolve...
rusty
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Better usability for minimize to now playing

Post by rusty »

Jaxjon, This has been fixed in the 2.0.2 beta. In the standalone 'Now Playing' window the behaviour has been changed to:
-minimize: minimizes the dialog to the tray (when the user double clicks the try, the 'now playing' dialog re-opens).
-maximize: toggles back to main mediamonkey window (this is more intuitive than before)
-close: same as previously
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